Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Houchens

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep (no consensus). Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:03, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Chris Houchens

Originally tagged for speedy, appears to be not notable so, Delete--MONGO 09:25, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

• The person is notable. On the ChangeThis website that is referenced in the article, his published manifesto is the 10th most popular in amongst names like Jay Conrad Levinson, Seth Godin, and Malcolm Gladwell. He gives marketing keynotes to companies and groups all over the country. I agree the bio portion is weak, but that just needs to be edited. Keep--17:01, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

• Notable enough. Keep Rrreese 07:49, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete "site:changethis.com Chris Houchens" gives one result. Is ChangeThis (alexa 46,000) considered major media? A blog, a marketing consulting practice, a few nn speaking engagements (that of course come with any marketing consulting practice). No media coverage, not in Amazon, not in Google scholar, not in Google Books, not in Google News. Just a guy. WP:BIO he meets not. -- Perfecto 17:45, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Of course there's just one result on ChangeThis. He's only got one manifesto. it's veru popular and virally speading across the net. He's top result on Technorati for advertising, branding, et al.139.55.93.119 03:05, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

• • One result means no one even mentions him in ChangeThis (unless Google doesn't spider the whole site). Top result? I'm calling your bluff. Can you provide me a link of a Technorati search result where he is "top" (apart from searching Shotgun marketing, his manifesto, or his name, of course)? I'm not even going to say top 10 or top 20. -- Perfecto 00:53, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• • • I don't think you fully understand how the ChangeThis website works. He's currently the 11th most popular manifesto on that site. Poularity is determined by number of downloads and trackbacks on blogs. There are no "mentions" ON the site. Go to the page he's on (http://www.changethis.com/14.DoesAnyoneKnow) and you'll see those numbers. Or you can sort by popularity on the ChangeThis search function. As to Technorati---He's in the top 100 for-

--Advertising http://www.technorati.com/blogs/Advertising

--Branding http://www.technorati.com/blogs/Branding

--Kentucky http://www.technorati.com/blogs/kentucky

--PR http://www.technorati.com/blogs/Public+Relations

--and several of his other Technorati tags http://www.technorati.com/profile/chrishouchens

• • Top 100 Blog, woo hoo! Go add this to the article: "Chris Houchens is notable for being #98 under 'Advertising' in Technorati [1]." The ChangeThis site shows no count of the downloads, i.e., are they unique downloads??, and then, again, is ChangeThis major media? "site:wikipedia.org changethis" has zero results. -- Perfecto 17:47, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep per above. -- JJay 20:57, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.